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LIVEElon Musk becomes world’s first trillionaire as SpaceX shares soar on stock market debutThe company’s shares started trading at $150 each (£112) shortly before noon eastern time, above the company’s estimated listing price of $135.
City of MidlandMidland officials spoke briefly at a press conferenceAt least one person is dead and nine were in hospital following a shooting in Texas, officials said on Friday.Police were initially in a “standoff” with the gunman but said the suspect was deceased as of early afternoon on Friday local time in Midland, a town in west Texas some 330 miles (530km) west of Dallas.There are 11 known victims, including the deceased, local officials said during a press conference. Midland Memorial Hospital said it received nine victims, and four are currently undergoing surgery. Another person was taken to Odessa Medical…
Spanish National PoliceFormer Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero is facing a new investigation following the discovery of luxury watches and jewellery in his safe.Zapatero, a Socialist who governed from 2004 to 2011 and who remains influential in the ruling party, had already been facing a probe into alleged influence peddling relating to his role in the 2021 government bailout of Spanish airline Plus Ultra. That inquiry prompted authorities to raid his office last month, where Spanish media reported they discovered necklaces, bracelets, rings and earrings valued at €1.2m (£1.02m).Zapatero’s spokesman, Luis Arroyo, said “he will provide explanations before…
EPAThe crash killed all but one person on board, and 19 more people on the groundInvestigators looking into the cause of the Air India crash that killed 250 people say they are not yet ready to release their final report. India’s Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) released an update on Friday, the first anniversary of the disaster, saying “significant progress” had been made in the analysis of evidence relating to the crash but that this was ongoing.It gave few other details, including when the final report might be released.The exact cause of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner crash shortly after taking…
PA MediaPrime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has joined the art world in paying tribute to David Hockney, one of the UK’s most important and popular artists, who has died at the age of 88.Sir Keir said he was “saddened” to hear of the death of “one of Britain’s most celebrated artists”.Artist Dame Tracey Emin said she felt privileged to have known Hockney, adding: “A great artist and a wonderful man, who with the power of art changed the perception of Britishness. A proud chain-smoking homosexual, who flew the flag higher than any other British artist.”Over his seven-decade career, Hockney was…
BBCMore than 50 Iranian military bases, including the headquarters of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), have been damaged by US-Israeli attacks since the war began, satellite images show.Bases across the country have been heavily damaged by US strikes, the images reviewed by BBC Verify show, with experts identifying damage to air force jets, warships and ballistic missile facilities.US officials say they have hit more than 13,000 targets across Iran since the conflict began on 28 February.On Tuesday and Wednesday night, US and Iranian forces exchanged fresh waves of strikes following the downing of a US helicopter in the Gulf.…
Getty ImagesTaylor Swift thanked their family for moving from Pennsylvania to Nashville to help her early careerTaylor Swift made an emotional 21-minute speech in which she tearfully thanked her family as she made history by becoming the youngest woman to be inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.Her family uprooted from Pennsylvania to Nashville when she was 14 “so that I could hone my craft in the songwriting capital of the world”, she said at the New York ceremony.”It couldn’t have been easy for my parents and my brother to just pick up and move our entire family,” she said.”Even…
Watch: Flip flop or deliberate? The BBC’s Gary O’Donoghue explains Trump’s strategy with IranIran has insisted that a final decision on an agreement to end the current conflict with the US has not yet been reached, despite President Trump again claiming a deal was likely to be signed imminently.Trump had declared the US would strike Iran “very hard” again on Thursday, but later said he was cancelling the strikes because negotiators had “just made a great settlement” with Iran.He told reporters it was “subject to finalisation of documents, which should get done, over the next few days” and that there…
LIVEArtist David Hockney dies aged 88The painter was one of the most influential and recognisable British artists of the 20th and 21st centuries.
‘I was employee number one’: SpaceX co-founder reacts to firm’s market debutThe BBC’s Michelle Fleury spoke to Tom Mueller, who was one of the company’s founders alongside Elon Musk in 2002.2 hrs ago